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system in 1984 to automate conversations.
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The creation of a system that interfaces both questions and answers and results in an analysis is a form of
Automated Intelligence. The presently marketed segment described as
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is based on the superficial results of increasing the throughput and increasing the ability of
digital streams to
emulate (immitate)
analog images, sounds and text.
The universe is
analog, and we humans understand the world around us through our sense organs,
eyes that collomate (focus light) image forms,
ears that use resonance and air pressure into auditory sensation,
noses and
tongues that sense the chemistry of molecules and
skin sensors that report events on our bodies. These incoming signals are preprocessed through brain centers that provide characteristic conscious impressions of integrated data. There is an an understanding among related intracommunication processes. For instance,
listening and
speech have many co-dependant foci involving preprocessing of motor output of respiration, larynx and tongue with the higher levels of understanding and then consciousness. The organization of the TQ logic is at a specific level of analog characterization. A spectrum of complexity is fundamentally analog. The most basic state of a factual answer is "Yes" or "No": the essential dipolar state (On/Off, approaching/receding, up/down, etc.) There is a range of conditional modifiers of that polarity, from a human perspective, "Maybe" and "Do not know" are most common. Any condition within that polar model can be expressed as a range (expressed by numerical degree) between "yes" and "no", such as "A lot, Sort of, Not much" or "All the time, sometimes and Never".
FOCUS is the key to efficiently deliberate to a conclusion.
Review a comparison of Automated Intelligence to the Artificial Intelligence of 2026.
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Much has been said about using massive databases and the processing used to emulate human thought... our common reality. No person can know everything, and we in the US have evolved a system of trust, in which trusted expertise is available. We therefore, have experienced a right to be ignorant, and a confirmation about the qualification and
validation of experienced, valid opinion.
Wisdom is not the same as cleverness. The result of clever application requires objective human judgement, which has not been identified as an algorithm. In our common reality of experience, there are humans who do seem able to recall facts drawn from brief experiences of memory. The photographic mind is similar to how digital data can be stored and recalled. Human thought appears (to the users of human brains) to develop by layers on foundations of factual relationships. Concepts are more complex than the association of adjoining words. Human thought and the soul are inherently
analog, like the rest of the universe. Nevertheless, because there is general acceptance about superficial emulation of our analog world with digital processes, that correlation could be sold once the cloistered imagery and sound was
perceptually identical to the actual reality of sight and sound.
For the accomplishment of a task of
wisdom, the
discipline of education is necessary. We humans can focus our thoughts, thus developing experience with purpose. The
Questionnaire Automation system is most useful for the accomplishment of tasks, providing a framework for concept development.
FOCUS is the key to efficiently deliberate to a conclusion. There is no philosophical basis for relative importance in today's AI that can emulate wisdom. Although Artificial Intelligence appears to be and is informational, it is, indeed,
artificial intelligence, an
emulation of
real intelligence, our personal
reality.
In 2025, the United States began experiencing the real disasters of
emulating wisdom and
competency.
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A criminal gang of insurrections illegally validated authorities of power (appointed by other authorities of power) without obeying the Constitutional and legal requirements of law that are explicit about Congressional validation of each candidate.
Historically, the confirmation process resulted in governmental agents who were competent authorities of disciplined facts with appropriate validation (validated by expertise, experience, education, endorsements by their peers and fulfillment of security requirements).
The emulation presented by those authorized actors were obviously "cosplay"; they had bizarre ideas about how a person would appear in those important roles. The results were incompentence and self-serving actions that resulted in tremendous losses of life, economic assets and international good will. The appointments were criminal, not political, and criminal methods were/are required to correct those misplaced authorities and their misleaders.


Touching Questions was also the name of my sole proprietorship in Laguna Beach, California beginning in 1979.
During the early 80s, hardware for personal computers continued to evolve. Personal Computers were recognized as "smart terminals" for the existing corporate mainframes. They were also smart terminals for the quickly growing networked minicomputers, as well as adjunct computing on networks. During this period, there was a lag in the "pointing" devices, pioneered by Apple Macintosh as a "Mouse". Touchscreens, now considered standard for cell phones, had been used for terminals in industrial settings, and began to be available in microcomputers (PCs) as an accessory over monitors. For PCs, the mouse became preferred because a mouse could be used more easily because it was next to the keyboard. There were several practical disadvantages to touch as a "pointing device": screens got smudged, touch over screens were expensive and involved rows of lights before touching-pads were developed, and the touchpads on keyboards quickly emulated a mouse. Printing, barcdes and scanning also developed during this time. As a developer of scientific systems, I encountered time-consuming and expensive hardware in order to serve the relatively small market for expensive installations. Experience with being an indpendent provider of complete systems made me realize many unexpected, time-consuming disadvantages. That period of rapid changes were an entire story.
Ironically, the period of "personal" computing has now evolved to a business climate that resembles the dominance of monopolistic companies of the 60s, like IBM. The internet has become the equivalent of the old business architecture of IBM. The internet of the worldwide web has been stunted and restricted by those who gained dominance in the early 2000s. That history foretells the inevitable evolutionary competition and change for the future.

with touch-sensitive
screens. Psychiatrists were able to create interviews which could assess the
urgency of a patient's needs. A patient could answer questions by touching their answers.
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The legal and cultural changes in medical practice have changed since my medical education and practice in the 1970s. There are implied obligations and responsibilities in the physician-patient contract. The NIH SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grant did not include any potential reference to giving advice, and only addressed the issue as the automated leaving of a message.
The already-installed system at food companies for sensory testing was free of those restraints, because the data analysis generated with TQ became the responsibility of my clients. Data on opinions of food sample was interpreted by statisticians and food quality assurance professionals. By the time that the granting process was near completion, the character of my business efforts had entirely changed. I became swamped by the Business Planning DOS shrinkwrapped product immediately upon public sales and generation of the capital (but no time) that I had hoped to fund medical applications.
